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Verizon
TelecomPioneers support Verizon's FTTP/FiOS vision - see how you can
make a difference! GO TO:
www.verizon.com/ma for Massachusetts
and
www.verizon.com/rhodeisland
Rhode
Island.
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Volunteer Incentive Program (VIP)
Do you volunteer for the PTA? Tutor children or
adults? Coach soccer? Raise money for community organizations?
The Volunteer Incentive Program recognizes employees'
contribution of time and talent to nonprofit organizations. Under the
program, employees are eligible to apply for a grant on behalf of the
qualified organization where they volunteered 50 hours or more during
the year. The Foundation rewards these employee volunteers with a $750
check for presentation to the designated organization. Employees may
request VIP grants on behalf of two separate organizations for a total
of $1,500 each year.
view poster and links
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 C.A.S.T.
(Catch A Special Thrill) is a 501c3 non-profit that
was created to partner those who love to fish outdoors with special
needs children and provide to the kids and their parents the education
on techniques of fishing and provide them the equipment to continue the
activity.
The C.A.S.T. for Kids Event was designed to create an environment
whereby children, ages 6 – 18, and adults could both benefit, sharing a
day of fun on the water that they may not otherwise get to experience.
For the second year the Denver Chapter has
participated in C.A.S.T. for Kids. On June 7, Children’s groups from the
local area were hosted at the Carolina Trout Hatchery on Old Richmond
Townhouse Rd in Carolina, RI and at the Roger Williams Park pond on
August 23rd. The children were supplied with fishing rods & reels,
a t-shirt, hat, and tackle box and were partnered with a RI Junior
Bassmasters Assoc. volunteer experienced angler (guide), and escorted on
to a motorized boat, which with the supervision of their caretaker, are
shown the proper techniques of fishing and educated on natural
resources. The TelecomPioneers set up and cooked hamburgers and hot dogs
for the kids on June 7th and sponsored the Salvation Army cook wagon on
August 23rd. At both events the kids had a ball and caught some
big fish. The weather was warm but there was plenty of cold
drinks, hamburgers and hot dogs with chips, cookies and crackers.
Everyone enjoyed themselves and the food that was leftover on June 7th
was brought to Jeremiah's soup kitchen in Worcester.
story and pics by Jim Crosbie and Diane
Rodger view
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Verizon Communications and the Verizon Telecom
Pioneers presented more than 200 Scholastic books to the “Read to Me”
program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. The donation included $6,000 in
funds to support the Hasbro program that gives each young patient in the
Rainbow and North Star pediatric clinics a book at every visit.
to view Providence
Business News article click here
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 Pioneer
Kat Geary of the Providence Club volunteered her outstanding
face painting talents at an
after hours event held by the Customer with Disabilities
center in Marlboro
Massachusetts. Manager Linda Mahoney approached the Pioneers for
help with their annual summer carnival by finding a face painter
for the children at the party. We immediately thought of Kat
who was pleased to be asked and agreed to volunteer her time.
She traveled over 50 miles
 to
be at the event and she painted faces from the start of the
event to the very end. The children were overjoyed and loved her
artistic work. The Framingham Club received an email from
Linda conveying her thanks to everyone for their support of this
annual event. She was ecstatic about Kat’s artistic work and was
very pleased that she made the children feel so comfortable, as
many times this does not happen. Attached are just a few
examples of the artistic face paintings she created. Thanks to
Kat and the Framingham Club for "answering the call".
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The
Boylston
Elementary School
recently had a Pioneer Playground MAP painted in the schoolyard. The kids in the photos are
the children of Jen McGrath who is on the PTO for the school. The kids
love the map and the teachers are already using it in a traveling game
to teach the states and capitals.
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Tracy
Dill the volunteer coordinator at the Ecotarium in Worcester and one of
the maintenance men accept Spruce and Fir trees for Earth Day and "Are
Trees Alive?' children's books to be given to children in one of
their summer programs.
photo and article by Jim Crosbie
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New books --
TelecomPioneers, a community service organization, generously donated
new Scholastic books to
Melrose
school for use in classroom libraries. They will also distribute
dictionaries to the third grade. Showing off the new books are
Linda Butterworth, back left, Toni Krause, back right, Lisa Casey, front
right and Norma Stoddard, front left. Photo by Andrea von Hohenleiten
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 COOKIES,
COOKIES EVERYWHERE! Pioneers partnered with
Girl Scouts and Brownies to help them earn badges and provide a resource
to collect and distribute Girl Scout Cookies at home and abroad.
Girl Scout Troop #913 created a project called
“Cookies for a Cause”.
The Girls and their advisors
sold cookies at
251 Locke Drive
in Marlboro one morning and for every box of cookies that employees
purchased and donated, Pioneers matched that sale. In all 57 Boxes were
donated and with a match of 57 more from the Pioneers, 114 boxes of
cookies will be distributed to the Franklin Food Pantry and Bedford VA
Hospital by the Girl Scouts. Congratulations to Troop #913 for all their
hard work and dedication to our veterans and those in need.
Pioneers also
partnered with 19 second graders from Brownie Troop #2289 from
Natick
Mass.
When an employee came to
us requesting assistance in helping the troop find a contact in
Iraq
to send the cookies to, a fellow Pioneer and employee’s son came to
mind. We connected the two and the Brownies soon had 25 cases (nearly
300 boxes) of Girl Scout cookies to send overseas. Realizing this was a
great expense to the troop, Pioneers offered to fund the mailing. Twenty
cases went to a unit identified by the employee’s son as one in need.
The other five cases were sent to the friend of a Brownie troop member's
family. That soldier is also stationed in
Iraq.
The girls also wrote letters on patriotic
stationery that all had a heading on the top that read "From Our Troop
To Your Troop." The letters were included with the cases of cookies.
The letters helped them to finish earning their Writing badges and the
cookie sales for the troops helped them earn a Service patch.
They also
enclosed some disposable cameras so hopefully some
pictures of the soldiers opening the cookies will be sent back.
Congratulation to Brownie Troop #2289 for their
creative and hard work obtaining their badges and for their continued
support of our men and women serving overseas.
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WJ Denver Chapter has a
NEW way for you to
contribute to your favorite Projects and Programs. On-Line
Donations may now be made on our website by clicking Project Donations.
Click
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